Stéphane Horel, France, is an investigative journalist at Le Monde. She specializes in exposing corporate harm, toxic industries and scientific disinformation. She has written several books and has directed a dozen documentaries.
Her investigations into corporate lobbying against chemical regulation won the 2017 Louise Weiss Prize for European Journalism. In 2018, the Monsanto Papers, co-written with Stéphane Foucart for Le Monde, received the European Press Prize for Investigation. That same year, Horel worked with ICIJ on the Implant Files investigation.
She has since become a passionate practitioner of cross-border journalism, developing innovative investigation methodologies. In 2023, she coordinated the Forever Pollution project, which revealed the extent of PFAS contamination in Europe. The cross-border, cross-field investigation won second place in the Society of Environmental Journalists 2023 Kevin Carmody Awards for Outstanding Investigative Reporting. Horel was the 2023 winner of the Science Journalist of the Year award in France.
